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Basic image enhancements using Photos

Basic image enhancements using Photos

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Basic image enhancements using Photos

- [Instructor] Photos for macOS is excellent for managing or editing our senior portraits. Let's take a look at the editing part of it. We have our three stars selected, so we'll take this shot right here. I'm just gonna hit the return key and that will bring us into editing mode and we'll work from top to bottom. So we start with light and my favorite slider and light is brilliance which does a number of things at once. It's a very smart algorithm and it protects the skin tones which is excellent for we portrait photographers right? But you also have exposure highlights, shadows, brightness, contrasts and black point. So you got all the good stuff there and they all work quite well. In color we have saturation which we don't need to mess right now. You do have color contrast which I like, we're not gonna see a lot of effect in this shop because all the colors are sort of in the same area but if you have like blues and reds and greens, color contrast would differentiate those and…

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